The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-01

the customs officers at Louisville, KY, to
take effective steus to prevent underval-
uations of iron and steel reported at that
port
The President has recognized Robert
Lehr, IT., a. vice consul ut Baltimore for
Portugal and Paul Francis De GouTnay as
consular agent at Baltimore for France.
IT is stated that Mrs. Cleveland will pre-
cede the President on his intended West
srn trip. going first to Madison, Wis, where
she will visit the family Of Postmaster
Eenersl Villas. The President will join his
wife there the second week in September
ind together they will visit Detroit, Jack
son, Grand Rapids, Chicago, St. Louis and
Kansas City.
THE New York Hog Slaughtering Com
to kill 900 hogs per day.
IT has turned out that the man held at
Salem, Ill, for the Railway IN. j. murder
mystery is q lunatic.
ARNOLD l. Co., the New York coffee bro
kers who failed during the recent coffee
panic, have instituted claims against cred
itors aggregating $7Os, 2Sa
CAPTAIN JACK HUssEy, the famous life
saver, who was shot by Policeman Hahn in
q drunken row at New York, June 2 died
on the 2lst.
The trial of Fire Chief Nevins, of Brook
Ign, collapsed on the 21st, the court in
structing the jury to acquit.
Four hundred Chinese laundry employees
in New York City have struck for an sd-
vance in wages.
A. ID. PARENT, defaulting cashier Of q
Montreal bank, has been arrested in Buff
falo and so 90 of the $4,000 stolen recov-
cred.
IN the suit of William d. Leonard as re-
ceiver Of James r. Keene against E. A.
Kent and Abraham Poole, formerly COM
posing the firm of E. Kent & Co., for an &C.
counting in the lard transactions Of 1873 in
which defendants acted as Keene's brok-
ers, Judge Truax, of the New York Super
Tor Court. has decided that an accounting
must be made by Poole.
The Army of the Potomac closed its re-
union at Saratoga, N. ", on the I'D. The
next meeting will be ut Gettysburg, July 1,
1885,
The board Of trustees of Wells Female
College, at Aurora, N. Y, recently voted
that women should have q representation in
the board, and Miss Helen F. Smith, the
lady principal, and Mrs. President Cleve-
land, an alumnus, were unanlmously chosen
trustees.
PRINCETON College has conferred the de-
gree Of IL d. on Justice Matthews, Of the
United States Supreme Court.
THE steamer Providence Of the Fall
River line ran ashore the other day in Long
Island sound. The passengers were saved.
FIVE or six buildings ON Lewis street,
New York, were destroyed py fire on the
morning Of the sd. Loss, $4,000.
A PROTEST against Dr. McGlynn's suspen-
sion and threatened accommodation has
been cabled to Rome by representatives of
100000 Catholics.
In the Hazlebrook eviction cases that
have been on trial at Wilkesbarre, Pa, be-
fore Alderman Donahue, judgment was en-
tered in favor Of evicted miners, six in num-
Der, in the sum Of $500 each for damages
sustained by reason of having their goods
and chattels thrown into the roadway.
A SPECIAL from Haverhill. Mass, of the
23d says that a gigantic lockout affecting
10000 hands in the big shoe factories was
about to be inaugurated.
MATHEW GEARNE, a wealthy brick man.
ufacturer of Haverstraw, N. Y, died re
Gently after a week of great suffering from
hydrophobia, the result of bite by favor
lite terrier some weeks ago.
THE race of the Eastern Yacht Club at
Marblehead, Mass, on the 23d was won BY
the Mayfiower in II 81 80. followed by the
Iroquois, Gaiatea, Sachem, America,
Stranger and Huron, in the order named.
"BRICK" PoNERoY has preferred charges
TO the Commissioners Of Hospitals against
the management Of Gouverneur Hospital al
New York alleging drunkenness, debauch
cry, cruelty to patients and incompetency
The brig Aldwyth, reported ut Baltimore
by the steamer Lore as having been in col
lision with that vessel in a fog, arrived
later at New York badly damaged.
SIX hundred employees Of the Atlantic oil
refinery, near Philadelphia, struck the Other
day against the employment Of Hungarisns
in the works.
TIE New York Chinese laundry striker.
have been granted increased wages.
The Connellsville pa coke syndicate
has again refused to give In to its men AND
to the iron manufacturers.
GOVERNOR HILL has signed the bill passed
by the late New York Legislature extend
ing local option throughout the State to the
extent Of permitting communities which
have prohibited retail liquor selling to als<
prohibit its sale at wholesale.
HoN. freeman CLARKE died in Rochester
n. T., on the 24th, after very long illness
aged seventy-eight years. He was Repre-
sentative in the Thirty-eighth, Forty
second and Forty-third Congresses, and
was appointed in 1865 Comptroller Of the
Currency by President Lincoln.
THERE was a semi-panic on Wall street
on the s4th, started by rumors of Jay
Gould's death. Prices dropped rapidly
but recovered ON news that the rumors
were false.
TIE. WHE.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire at Leayenworth broke
out on the 2lst at Heimer & Parmelee's
BARRIERS supplies warehouse, Third anG
Delaware, burning down the block and
causing damage Of about S3OO,OOO
TIE annual convention of the Travellers
Protective Association opened in ST. Loui.
on the 21st, with large number of dele
gates ia attendance.
n. G. MCDONALD, the gambler. whose
brother was convicted in the Doodle trial q,
Chicago, has decided to withdraw from
politics.
The steam barge r. ". Walters, 200
ton vessel, owned by John Homeguardner
OF Sandusky, was suak in a storm Of
Blackriver, o., on the 10th and eight lives
were lost.
CoLkRow, sub-chief of the Utes and 8
noted renegade, who has been depredatine
IN the Uncompahgre district for several
years with sixty Utes, and was the leader
of the Meeker massacre, has been captured
by the United States troops.
The fifth annual convention of the Master
Plumbers Association OF the United States
began on the 21st in Chicago. with l6O dele
gates present.